Center for the Study of Law & Society

AROUND THE CENTER

Congratulations to former Center Director Lauren Edelman, winner of the 2017 Academy of Management’s George R Terry Book Award and the ASA Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Award for her book, Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights (Chicago, 2016). Working Law also received Honorable Mention for the Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Book Prize.

September 18 – CSLS Speaker Series – Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley – “To Liberate From the Accident of Family Wealth’: How Liberals Revived and Revised the Case for School Vouchers in the 1960s and 1970s and Paved the Way to Zelman”

The Center
The Center supports theoretically-based, empirical research on new developments at the interplay of law and society in contemporary and historical contexts. While part of Berkeley’s School of Law, the Center fosters a multi- disciplinary context in which UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students from many departments interact and engage with visiting socio-legal scholars from universities in the United States and abroad. – Jonathan Simon, Director